Our Blog
18 months of living with LLMs – what are we learning?
Our blog is written by Dr Imogen Casebourne who is DEFI's Innovation Lab lead. She has an MSc in Artificial Intelligence (1995), for which she developed an AI program that wrote short stories (Sharples & Pérez y Pérez, 2023 p.8-10). She is currently co-editing a...
Reflections on Designing and Facilitating Effective Online and Blended Teacher Professional Development
Our guest blogger is DEFI webinar presenter, Meaghan Brugha, who is an experienced Teacher Professional Development (TPD) researcher. In her latest blog she outlines key considerations in creating standout technology enhanced TPD.A few months ago, DEFI and CEDiR...
AI-Powered Pedagogy: Designing the Future of Education
Alina von Davier is a keynote speaker at DEFI's annual event which this year is titled: AI-Powered Pedagogy: Designing the Future of Education. As Chief of Research at Duolingo English Test, she and her team are pioneering new assessment methods. Here she tells us a...
Platonia: The First Worldwide Learning Web
Supported by Innovate UK, the UK government's innovation agency, our latest blog is written by our new Entrepreneur in Residence, Piyush Ahuja. Find out more about Piyush here and read on to find out more about his innovative, dialogic platform. Social graph offers...
Guest blog – Making use of ChatGPT in teaching and research in Education
Our guest blogger for this post is Dr. Steve Watson, associate professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, and a fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Learn more about Steve at the bottom of this page. Capabilities and limitations of...
Should we trust ChatGPT?
There's lots of talk about ChatGPT helping students to cheat. Is that because it's able to cheat on its own?A funny thing happened as I was working on a forthcoming blog post about the potential of ChatGPT Assistant as a learning tool. In a spirit of fun, I thought I...
Sustainable Ethics for Inclusive Digital Environments (SEIDE) initiative
Studying the ethics and integrity of the metaverseCognitive, sensorial, and physical reactions to digital environments As people we spend most of our time interacting with objects, services and environments that substantially affect our capabilities, socio-emotional...
Horizon scanning with Dr. Fawaz Abu Sitta
Horizon scanning with Dr. Fawaz Abu Sitta"Think of something that’s impossible today which, if it happened, would change everything in the education system" This was a key question presented by Dr Fawaz Abu Sitta during his lecture at the Faculty of Education last...
‘Building up’ new models of digital education in Rural East Africa
The challenge of learning with mobiles (LWM) approaches in the Global South ‘If you want to hide something, put it in a book.’ This quip from Alphaxard Kimani, farmer-philosopher of central Kenya, programme leader for The International Small Group and Tree Planting...
Digital challenge-based learning in the COVID-19 Peer Hub
A digital human knowledge and action network of health workers Challenging established notions of learning in global health When Prof Rupert Wegerif introduced DEFI in his blog post, he argued that recent technologies will transform the notions and practice of...
